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MOTUC vs DC is DEAD!

MOTUClassics.Com: Is Battle Armor Faker one of the six 2011 TRU MOTU/DC 2pks?

It was one of the original six but at this point it will be the final pack as retailers have not ordered any additional packs and it looks like the line will end with this pack. The GL/Zodac and Supergirl/She-Ra packs should still hit before the end of the year now for a total of 5 packs. But the sixth pack will not move forward unfortunately. There just has not been enough interest from retailers to keep this line going. While we announced 6 packs and hoped to do 6, we could not find a retailer who would take the min order needed for the 6th pack.

Maybe Mattel can sell the repaints separately from the DC figures? Here is the thread for that if you want Mattel to know that the MOTUC parts of the two packs can still have a home on Mattycollector.com!

There was no promotion behind these is what hurt them. Not one radio or TV ad. Back in the 80's even with 200x line there were TV commercials all over the place,but not with this. Honestly no one outside of someone who follows the He-man news knew they we're in retail. Mattel has to reach the people that DON'T know about the line for retail success to happen. You can't just put something in a store and hope it sells.

Are they not include the original 2 He-Man and Skeletor packs? Because unless I have my math wrong, 4 of these packs have already been released (the ones with He-Man, Skeletor, Mer-Man, and Stratos) and 3 more are coming (the Faker exclusive one, the She-Ra one, and the Zodac one). That would make for a total of 7, with a theoretical additional one being 8.

EDIT: Nevermind, I just realized that they meant the 6 sets for this year, and not for the line as a whole. My bad!

As for the "lack of interest from retailers"... there is only one retailer involved here... Toys R Us. And the new packs can't come out when the old ones are still clogging the shelves!

But I can't say that I'm too upset about it. While this was a cool way to get a few variant repaints that we might not otherwise get, it's also extra money that I don't need to be spending. So I'll get the remaining packs as they become available and be done with it!

Darn, I liked them because they took all the repaints I would never want to buy and packaged them in a format that would never be included in the subscription. Like if they ever did a Green Trap-Jaw, I would have wanted it to be in a DC 2-pack so that I wouldn't be forced to buy it.

Are they not include the original 2 He-Man and Skeletor packs? Because unless I have my math wrong, 4 of these packs have already been released (the ones with He-Man, Skeletor, Mer-Man, and Stratos) and 3 more are coming (the Faker exclusive one, the She-Ra one, and the Zodac one). That would make for a total of 7, with a theoretical additional one being 8.

As for the "lack of interest from retailers"... there is only one retailer involved here... Toys R Us. And the new packs can't come out when the old ones are still clogging the shelves!

But I can't say that I'm too upset about it. While this was a cool way to get a few variant repaints that we might not otherwise get, it's also extra money that I don't need to be spending. So I'll get the remaining packs as they become available and be done with it!

Thats what I thought as well, but then i realized it was six two-packs for 2011, which doesn´t include He-Man or Skeletor as they were from last year.

Australia (like many other countries) didn't get these 2 packs, 'Toys R Us' should get what's left (seems like A LOT in some stores!) from the US stores and ship them to 'Toys R US' Oz where Fans would hopefully buy them (and the same for other countries too)

Major sadness. At least the Zodac and She-Ra packs will be released... hopefully... Gah.... there are so many at my local TRU. They've trippled in amount since I was last there, oddly. And they're still at the same price.

They went super cheap instead of putting figures together that would lure BOTH DCUC and MOTUC collectors. If Mattel had taken a slight loss on these, which I doubt could even happen, it would have been worth the investment in the two lines, and in mattycollector.

(Also, Toyman never came out because there wasn't enough demand for the other 3packs...but supposedly he was ready.)

He was tooled and made (samples were sold on ebay via a Chinese seller).

Scott/Toyguru has been telling the JLU collectors over on AFI and via Matty's forums that they had better support the S.T.R.I.P.E. sale or the 7-pack that was planned to finish the League, as well as the 3packs that included Toyman, Scott Alan GL, Jay Garrick Flash, etc. would never see the light of day.

I think it's a bluff... I think those figures were produced because the samples showed up on ebay.

BUT, that's beside the point. JLU stuff should have been sold on mattycollector and these 2-packs could have been planned better and sold there as well.

Including TRU should only be for when there is a movie or a mega-hit TV show. They went for the retail thing way too soon.

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I am fairly indifferent to this announcement. Out of the announced/released 2-packs, the only figure I really wanted was blue Mer-Man and his electric corn cob sword. That's it. I got the Skeletor/Luthor 2-pack mainly for Luthor but I could have easily lived without it. All in all, this announcement comes as no surprise to me...

Last edited by Benedict Judas Hel; July 15, 2011 at 06:51pm.

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Ouch. That's just salt in the would if the last pack was indeed going to be a Filmation colors Hordak. Why you gotta hurt me like that Brian?!?

I know.

It was rumored by a couple other Orgers, back when Mattel said they were going to show a pack at Wonder Con and then didn't.

Of course Toyguru will deny it, and maybe that plan did change.

As a loyal paying customer, who buys JLU, DCUC, and MOTUC, I just do NOT like being told that I better go buy up products I don't need to make way for new product because the brand manager didn't plan this particular venture well enough.

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Stratos/Hawkman SHOULD have had Golden Age Hawkman with a repaint of The Atom's head. DC collectors had ZERO interest in this two-pack because they already had Hawkman from a while back.